A mission trip to Puerto Peñasco

On March 16, 2024, a group of ten volunteers waited at the Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Ariz., for their van to pick them up and take them across the border, through the desert and to Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico, for a week of missionary work.

The group was a mash-up of five EMT's, three missionaries, one pastor leading the group and a solitary Whitman County Gazette journalist graciously invited to document the experience.

The mission trip was organized by Well Child International and aimed to help provide much needed medical services and quality of life improvements to some of the impov...